Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-30

with cars billed from Kansas City to
Gainesville.
The next city in size, but certainly first
in present and future Importance, is
FORT WORTH,
which is notably city OF jobbing and
artesian wells. 1t is so customary to
speak of jo0bing in connection with cit
les that it is difficult to disconnect the
idea of political jobbery from CONNER
cial iobbing. Fort Worth business men
declare that owing to the drouth of last
year the business Of that city was but
slightin comparison with what it should
be, and yet the aggregate sales of thirty-one
! houses doing wholesale business
amounted to S6,500,O00 with q retail
trade exceeding that amount. This sea-
son, owing to the rains that came so
opportunely, their sales, they claim, will
be trebled, and l do not doubt it after
seeing the start they have made and the
country from which they draw.
Fort Worth is not new town, having
| been located in 1S49. 1t was not in
corporated as city, however, until 1878,
since which time it has had healthy
| growth, retarded only by the extended
drought just broken. 1t is railroad
center strictly speaking, having been
reached by the following roads and
branches in the years given: Texas and
Pacific, 1876; Texas and Pacific to
! Whitesboro, 1880; Missouri Pacific south,
! 1880; Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, 1881;
Fort Worth and Denver, 1882; Fort
| Worth and New Orleans, 1886; Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe, 1887; Fort Worth
and Rio Grande, 1887; Cotton Belt, 1887 1t
will be seen that the southern railroads
have deemed this point that should be
reached, and this alone speaks more for
the location than anything else than can
be said, as railroad building in Texas is
uninfluenCed by aid in the shape of bonds.
The city is well built, and system of
internal Improvements is in progress that
will soon make of Fort Worth model
city. There are thirty-five miles of graded
streets in the city, the pavement being
like granite.
The water supply is obtained from arte-
sian wells, there being nearly $50 now
flowing, and more are being daily added.
This water is exceedingly pure, and OBJ
tanned at a cost of from $500 to $500.
AS to surface water there are 179 miles
of running water in Tarrsut county, in
which Fort Worth is situsted, is what
may be called live streams, there being
twenty-siX in all. These streamslall have
good supply Of timber on them, so the
question of water and wood is one that
does not trouble this people.
Lands. in the country tributary to Fort
Worth are not dear or difficult to obtain,
as seems to be generally supposed. Many
of the great tracts ar already broken up
and placed on the market, while others
are offered, the prices running about as
they did in Kansas in the earlier days,
although some are cheaper. School lands
can also be obtained on thirty years
time.
Ranches can be purchased at figures
that would astonish Kansas or Missouri
people. While the title to some Of the
lands may be clouded, such lands are of
comparatively small area, the title to the
greater portion being as good as in your
own state.
While grazing seems to be the great
central idea when speaking of these lands |
they are as rich and productive as any in |
the world, and cotton, corn and wheat
can be raised SIS proftahlY as in any Sec
tion of the Union. Oats this yesr have